Mimi Lok

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Mimi Lok is a British-Chinese author, editor, and educator. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, A PEN America Award, and a California Book Award for Fiction. She is also the founder of Voice of Witness, an award-winning human rights and oral history nonprofit organization focused on amplifying marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program.^[1]

Her debut short story collection, Last of Her Name (Kaya Press, 2019) is the winner of the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize,^[2] and a California Book Award silver medal for first fiction,^[3] and was a finalist for The California Independent Bookseller Alliance ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2020,^[4] and CLMP Firecracker Award.^[1] The novella from the collection, "The Woman in the Closet" was a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Award,^[5] Some of the key themes that the author contemplates are human connection, the Asian diaspora, and empathy.^[6][7] Her work has been published in McSweeney's, Electric Literature, Nimrod, Lucky Peach, Hyphen, and the South China Morning Post.^[8]